THIXOTROPY: THE EFFECT OF STRETCH SIZE IN RELAXED FROG MUSCLE
- 22 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology
- Vol. 73 (1) , 127-129
- https://doi.org/10.1113/expphysiol.1988.sp003110
Abstract
Small forces were applied to isolated frog muscle; the resulting displacements were used to calculate muscle stiffness (elastic modulus, E). Stiffness is much greater for small forces within the range of the Short Range Elastic Component (SREC; Hill, 1968). ''Stirring'' the muscle greatly reduces the stiffness, but only when the applied force is small. Stiffness subsequently returns to its original level. This strongly suggests that muscle thixotropy (Lakie, Walsh and Wright, 1984) is a property of the SREC.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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